Title
Trust : Who or What Might Support Us? / Adriaan T. Peperzak.
ISBN
9780823293452
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2013
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (200 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1515/9780823293452 doi
Summary
This phenomenological study begins by presenting trust as a characteristic form of interpersonal and communal relationship. In the second chapter, the scope is narrowed to someone's reliance on one or more trustworthy individuals. Chapters 3 to 5 explore specific aspects of trust, insofar as we confide in social structures or movements, the impersonal regularities and events of nature, or our own particular talents, motivations, and possibilities. In a world that is ravaged by the omnipresence of suffering and the most outrageous manifestations of evil, no philosopher can avoid the question of what kind of trust may be profound and strong enough to overcome the ultimate anxiety or despair that threatens all human existence. In the Western tradition of belief, thinking, faith, and searching for the first and ultimate, that question is approached here through reflection upon the radical difference between trust (or faith) in the universe (the totality) and faith (or trust) in God.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023)
Available in Other Form
print 9780823244898
Frontmatter
Contents
Instead of a Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Varieties of Trust and Distrust
1. Trust
2. Entrusting
Part II: What and Whom Can We Trust?
3. Trust in the Society
4. Counting on Nature
5. Self-Confidence
Part III: Trust in Philosophy and Religion
6. Trust in Philosophy
7. Trust in Search of Insight
8. Trust in God or the Universe?
Notes
Index
